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Jan 7, 2004

Auriga Attracts Veteran of the Offshore IT Outsourcing Industry

Auriga, an American-Russian provider of offshore, offsite, and
onshore software development services, today announced that it attracted
one of the top business development managers in the offshore industry.

Bartley R. (Bart) Higgins is appointed to Senior Account
Executive and will be responsible for developing strategic relationships
with IT executives. Bart joins Auriga from Infosys
Technologies Ltd., one of the largest Indian offshore outsourcing
providers, where he spent six years as one of the top salespeople in the
company's history. He worked with companies in the financial services,
healthcare, retail and telecom industries and established numerous
satisfied customer accounts. Prior to Infosys, Bart acquired hands-on
experience in various echelons within IT companies from programming and
project management to CEO.

"Russia has a vast pool of highly talented software engineers", said
Bart Higgins. It presents a great new opportunity for U.S.
companies to utilize the offshore model for developing highly
sophisticated software, and I'm excited to be a part of this trend.

"Bart has been a significant impetus for the Indian offshore
software development industry", said Alexis Sukharev,
Auriga's President and CEO. "They've set the trends and established
the benchmarks for others to shoot at. We intend to grow quickly and
become an even more significant player than we already are. Bart's
experience will help to improve our account management processes even
further, establish closer relationships with new clients and scale
existing clients."